White House Stands By Holder On Fast And Furious

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73. Hey, I don't know if you knew...

But if Holder loses his day job and Obama appoints a new AG... the Republicans can (and make no mistake, will) hold up his or her appointment all the way to the election. Effectively for five months there will be no attorney general. The DoJ will still function, but there will be no one calling the "big shots." that the AG does.

Big shots such as investigating voter disenfranchisement.

See how that works? Stall efforts to purge Democrats - and yes, we know they're targeting Democrats, or at least, "Democratic districts" - just long enough to pull the election.

Further, Obama letting Holder go will hurt Obama's re-election efforts. The Attorney general isn't some small-potatoes bullshit job that you can pass out to a guy you know who jacks off horses for a living (that's FEMA, take a right at the fourth door). It would be on par with say... if Bush had dumped Rumsfeld halfway in 2004. Death knell for any hopes of re-election. You want to drop the big names from your roster AFTER the election, not before.

Holding onto Holder has its flaws - but they're not BIG flaws. This is barely even a scandal, as far as scandals go. A Bush program, ENDED by Holder, went a little off the rails and an agent may have been killed due to it. yeah, that's bad... But it's not Watergate. it's not Iran Contra. it's not even "Mission Accomplished," it's "shit happens when your department has a dangerous job to do." Police commissioners aren't forced to resign if an officer dies in a sting. if you want to argue that he SHOULD, fine, make that argument, but the fact is it doesn't happen.

Keeping Holder on board until at least the settlement of the election does let the Republicans keep pecking at it. You know, like htye do with the birth certificate thing, or solyndra, or all that other bullshit they peck at that nobody buys. However throwing Holder under the bus not only CONFIRMS that this is a "big scandal," but it also weakens the Obama campaign AND gives the Republicans a free ride to fuck YOU, the voter, all the way into November.